| Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 18 N. Broad Street |
Eamon Ore-Giron, Exit Strategy, acrylic on canvas, 2005
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Spot Check: Academy Contemporary
March 1 - June 8, 2008
107th Annual Student Exhibition
May 10 - June 1, 2008
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| Contact Info |
18 N. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103 |
| 215-972-7600 |
| www.pafa.org |
| Museum
hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday, 11 am -
5 pm |
| Admission: $7 general;
$6 students and seniors; $5 for ages 5 - 18; members and children
under 5 free |
Preview party for 107th Annual Student Exhibition: Thursday, May 8, 5 - 8:30 pm
Opening reception for 107th Annual Student Exhibition: Friday, May 9, 5 - 8:30 pm
Spot Check
Since 2004 the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts has set aside a portion of its acquisition funds to purchase work by emerging artists. This Morris Gallery focus installation spotlights over a dozen objects that have entered the Academy’s collection through the Contemporary Art Development Fund. Spot Check: Academy Contemporary will showcase art that engages in a wide range of current practices. It features work by Astrid Bowlby, Joy Feasley, Jane Irish, Tristan Lowe, Rob Matthews, Eamon Ore-Giron, Ben Peterson, Isaac Resnikoff, Huston Ripley, Jane South, Monique van Genderen and others. From an elaborate low-tech wall construction to a meticulously rendered California futurescape, an anthropomorphic architectural creature to startling ruminations on sexual, religious, and racial identity, this installation promises an exciting look at an important subset of the Academy's contemporary collection.
Student Exhibition
The Pennsylvania Academy’s 107th Annual Student Exhibition, underwritten by the Women’s Board of the Pennsylvania Academy, unveils the work of our third- and fourth-year Certificate and graduating Master of Fine Arts students.
An Academy tradition for more than a century, the exhibition represents the culmination of training in the Academy’s disciplines of painting, drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Visitors will enjoy more than 1,000 works, which showcase a diversity of styles that combine traditional skill and contemporary vision and are available for sale at accessible prices. The exhibition features the art hung “salon style” throughout the first two floors of the Samuel M.V. Hamilton building. |
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| About the Museum |
| Founded in 1805, the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts is America’s oldest art museum and
school of fine arts. The Academy collects and exhibits the work
of distinguished American artists and is renowned for its reputation
in training artists from the United States and, increasingly, from
around the world. PAFA offers a Certificate program, a Master of
Fine Arts degree program, a coordinated Baccalaureate of Fine Arts
degree program in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania,
and a Post-Baccalaureate program in painting, printmaking, and sculpture.
Notable alumni include Thomas Eakins, Mary Cassatt, Cecilia Beaux,
Henry Tanner, Maxfield Parrish, Robert Henri, John Sloan, Charles
Sheeler, William Glackens, John Marin, Robert Gwathmey, David Lynch,
Bo Bartlett, and Vincent Desiderio. |
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